Lorry driver

Motoring by Press Association 06/12/2018, 4:39 pm FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmail Send us a story Sign up to our Daily newsletter Motorists across the UK say lorry drivers are the safest they encounter – while BMW 1 Series drivers are among the worst out there. Gloucester-based WMB Logistics quizzed 2,267 drivers about the safety of other road users. Of those, 22 per cent said drivers of HGVs were the safest they encountered, while parents came in a close second at 21 per cent. Delivery drivers took third place on the podium with 13 per cent of the vote, while coach drivers and recently passed motorists rounded out the top five at 11 and 10 per cent respectively. On the flip side, when asked what cars they had seen being driven unsafely, the BMW 1 Series and Vauxhall Corsa took an equal vote as the most prevalent, while Ford C-Max drivers came third. Asked about which gender they encountered most in unsafe incidents, 80 per cent said male drivers. Building on … [Read more...] about Lorry drivers voted as safest on UK roads

A LORRY driver who allegedly vandalised a memorial to murdered British soldiers while chatting on his phone must remain in custody, a High Court judge ruled today. Robert James McKeegan (44) was refused bail amid claims he kicked over poppy crosses and wreathes at the shrine to the Narrow Water massacre. Eighteen soldiers were killed in two IRA bomb attacks at the site near Warrenpoint, Co Down in August 1979. McKeegan, of Beech Close in Bleary, Craigavon, is charged with criminal damage to the memorial, which belongs to the Royal British Legion, on October 4. He faces a further count of having an indecent photograph of a child on a phone seized last week by police investigating the attack. The case against him involves CCTV images from cameras installed in the area following previous acts of vandalism, the court heard. Crown counsel said: "One male exited the lorry while chatting on a mobile phone, kicking crosses and wreathes off display and damaging the memorial." The incident on … [Read more...] about Lorry driver who allegedly vandalised Narrow Water memorial while chatting on phone refused bail

STUNNED police officers caught a lorry driver using a Lucozade bottle for an indicator. The bottle was flattened and stuck onto the rear lights using tonnes of sticky tape. West Yorkshire traffic cop Dave Cant stopped the vehicle on the M62 near Bradford. Having tweeted pictures of incident, 'Traffic Dave' joked that the Lucozade bottle was actually a good colour match. The brake light on the lorry was also broken, as well as having a smashed wing mirror and cracked windscreen. Pulled over on November 3, the unnamed driver had even overloaded the vehicle to make matters worse. The driver was fined and prohibited from moving the lorry until the weight issue was rectified. He was in the process of delivering beds, with the vehicle originating from "the wrong side of the Pennines", according PC Cant's tweets. When asked what the driver will get [as punishment], the officer also quipped "hydration and lots of energy". Another Twitter user commented: "That is quite possibly he worst HGV … [Read more...] about Lorry driver ‘fixes’ his broken indicator by sellotaping a Lucozade bottle to his rear lights

A lorry driver has been charged in connection with the death of a cyclist who was killed on Chelsea Bridge. Claudette Landi, 36, was cycling on the morning of Wednesday, September 27, 2017, when she was struck by a lorry on Chelsea Embankment, at the junction of Grosvenor Road and Chelsea Bridge. Following the crash, just before 8am, a 15-year-old boy performed CPR on the cyclist as they waited for emergency services to arrive. Claudette was rushed to hospital but was declared dead later that morning. She became the seventh cyclist to be killed on London's roads in 2017. At the time of the crash, the Metropolitan Police said the driver of the lorry had stopped at the scene and had been arrested by police on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving. Jason Edmunds, 43, of North Cockerford, in Basildon, who police say is the driver of the lorry, has now been charged with causing death by dangerous driving. He is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on October … [Read more...] about Lorry driver charged over death of cyclist on Chelsea Bridge

A lorry driver was spared jail despite knocking a veteran Labour peer off his mobility scooter at a zebra crossing - causing his death. Lord Taylor of Blackburn was on a zebra crossing outside the House of Lords, in Westminster, when a heavy goods vehicle crashed into him, leaving him suffering severe head injuries, which he later died from. Former Nepalese Gurkha Kul Pandey was handed a 24-week jail term which was suspended for two years the Old Bailey on Monday (April 9). The 56-year-old from Feltham had pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving. Lord Taylor, an 87-year-old great grandfather who "fought injustice all his life", suffered severe head injuries in the incident and died in hospital days after the collision. Read More Latest west London news The Old Bailey heard how Pandey was returning to Shepperton after making a delivery when the crash happened at 6pm on November 16, 2016. It was raining and dark as he stopped at the zebra crossing, overshooting the 'give … [Read more...] about Feltham lorry driver who caused the death of peer avoids jail